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<tbody><tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.5em;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Japanese_cruiser_Tsukuba_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Japanese_cruiser_Tsukuba_2.jpg/300px-Japanese_cruiser_Tsukuba_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Japanese_cruiser_Tsukuba_2.jpg/450px-Japanese_cruiser_Tsukuba_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Japanese_cruiser_Tsukuba_2.jpg/600px-Japanese_cruiser_Tsukuba_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="360" /></a></span><div><i>Tsukuba</i> at anchor at Kure, after 1913</div> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Class overview</th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Name</td><td><i>Tsukuba</i></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Builders</td><td><a href="/wiki/Kure_Naval_Arsenal" title="Kure Naval Arsenal">Kure Naval Arsenal</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Operators</td><td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Naval_ensign_of_the_Empire_of_Japan.svg/23px-Naval_ensign_of_the_Empire_of_Japan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Naval_ensign_of_the_Empire_of_Japan.svg/35px-Naval_ensign_of_the_Empire_of_Japan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Naval_ensign_of_the_Empire_of_Japan.svg/46px-Naval_ensign_of_the_Empire_of_Japan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy" title="Imperial Japanese Navy">Imperial Japanese Navy</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Preceded by</td><td><a href="/wiki/Kasuga-class_cruiser" title="Kasuga-class cruiser"><i>Kasuga</i> class</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Succeeded by</td><td><a href="/wiki/Ibuki-class_armored_cruiser" title="Ibuki-class armored cruiser"><i>Ibuki</i> class</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Built</td><td>1905–1908</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">In service</td><td>1907–1922</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Planned</td><td>2</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Completed</td><td>2</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Lost</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Scrapped</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">General characteristics</th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Type</td><td><a href="/wiki/Armored_cruiser" title="Armored cruiser">Armored cruiser</a> (later reclassified as <a href="/wiki/Battlecruiser" title="Battlecruiser">battlecruiser</a>)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Displacement</td><td>13,750 long tons (13,971 t)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td>450 ft (137.2 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>75 ft (22.9 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Draft</td><td>26 ft (7.9 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Installed power</td><td>20 Miyabara <a href="/wiki/Water-tube_boiler" title="Water-tube boiler">water-tube boilers</a>, 20,500 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower#Indicated_horsepower" title="Horsepower">ihp</a> (15,300 kW)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Propulsion</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 Shafts</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 <a href="/wiki/Marine_steam_engine#Triple_or_multiple_expansion" title="Marine steam engine">Vertical triple-expansion steam engines</a></li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Speed</td><td>20.5 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a> (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Complement</td><td>820</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armament</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × twin <a href="/wiki/EOC_12_inch_/45_naval_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="EOC 12 inch /45 naval gun">12-inch (305 mm) guns</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">12 × single <a href="/wiki/15_cm/45_41st_Year_Type" title="15 cm/45 41st Year Type">6-inch (152 mm)</a> guns</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">12 × single <a href="/wiki/QF_4.7_inch_Gun_Mk_I_-_IV" class="mw-redirect" title="QF 4.7 inch Gun Mk I - IV">4.7-inch (120 mm) guns</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">4 × single <a href="/wiki/QF_12_pounder_12_cwt_naval_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun">QF 12-pounder 12-cwt guns</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">4 × <a href="/wiki/QF_3-pounder_Hotchkiss" title="QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss">QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">3 × single <a href="/wiki/Torpedo_tube" title="Torpedo tube">torpedo tubes</a></li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armor</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Belt_armor" title="Belt armor">Waterline belt</a>: 4–7 in (102–178 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Deck_(ship)" title="Deck (ship)">Deck</a>: 1.5–2 in (38–51 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Gun_Turret" class="mw-redirect" title="Gun Turret">Gun Turret</a>: 6.0–9.6 in (152–244 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Barbette" title="Barbette">Barbette</a>: 7 in (178 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Conning_tower" title="Conning tower">Conning tower</a>: 8 in (203 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Bulkhead_(partition)" title="Bulkhead (partition)">Bulkhead</a>: 1 in (25 mm)</li> </ul></td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>The <b><i>Tsukuba</i>-class cruisers</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">筑波型巡洋戦艦</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Tsukuba-gata jun'yōsenkan</i></span>)</span> were a pair of large <a href="/wiki/Armored_cruiser" title="Armored cruiser">armored cruisers</a> (<i>Sōkō jun'yōkan</i>) built for the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Navy" title="Imperial Japanese Navy">Imperial Japanese Navy</a> (IJN) in the first decade of the 20th century. Construction began during the <a href="/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War" title="Russo-Japanese War">Russo-Japanese War</a> of 1904–05 and their design was influenced by the IJN's experiences during the war. The British development of the <a href="/wiki/Battlecruiser" title="Battlecruiser">battlecruiser</a> the year after <a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Tsukuba" title="Japanese cruiser Tsukuba"><i>Tsukuba</i></a> was completed made her and her <a href="/wiki/Sister_ship" title="Sister ship">sister ship</a> <a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Ikoma" title="Japanese cruiser Ikoma"><i>Ikoma</i></a> obsolete, as they were slower and more weakly armed than the British, and later German, ships. Despite this, they were reclassified in 1912 as battlecruisers by the IJN. </p><p>Both ships played a small role in <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> as they unsuccessfully hunted for the German <a href="/wiki/East_Asia_Squadron" title="East Asia Squadron">East Asia Squadron</a> in late 1914. They became <a href="/wiki/Training_ship" title="Training ship">training ships</a> later in the war. <i>Tsukuba</i> was destroyed in an accidental <a href="/wiki/Magazine_(artillery)" title="Magazine (artillery)">magazine</a> explosion in 1917 and subsequently <a href="/wiki/Ship_breaking" title="Ship breaking">scrapped</a>. Her sister was disarmed in 1922 in accordance with the terms of the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty" title="Washington Naval Treaty">Washington Naval Treaty</a> and broken up for scrap in 1924. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsukuba-class_cruiser&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tsukuba_Brassey%27s1915.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="side and top view diagrams of the ship" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Tsukuba_Brassey%27s1915.png/220px-Tsukuba_Brassey%27s1915.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Tsukuba_Brassey%27s1915.png/330px-Tsukuba_Brassey%27s1915.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Tsukuba_Brassey%27s1915.png/440px-Tsukuba_Brassey%27s1915.png 2x" data-file-width="1034" data-file-height="641" /></a><figcaption>Right elevation and plan of the <i>Tsukuba</i>-class cruisers from <a href="/wiki/Brassey%27s_Naval_Annual" class="mw-redirect" title="Brassey's Naval Annual">Brassey's Naval Annual</a> 1915; the shaded areas represent armor.</figcaption></figure> <p>About a month after the Russo-Japanese War began in February 1904, the <a href="/wiki/Japanese_Diet" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese Diet">Japanese Diet</a> authorized a temporary special budget of <a href="/wiki/Japanese_yen" title="Japanese yen">¥</a>48,465,631 that would last until the end of the war. It included the 1904 War Naval Supplementary Program which authorized construction of two <a href="/wiki/Battleship" title="Battleship">battleships</a> and four armored cruisers, among other ships. Two of the latter became the <i>Tsukuba</i>-class cruisers which were ordered on 23 June.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Based on the experience at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Yellow_Sea" title="Battle of the Yellow Sea">Battle of the Yellow Sea</a> in August 1904 where the Russians opened fire at ranges well beyond what had been anticipated before the war, the IJN decided to arm the ships with 12-inch (305 mm) 45-calibre (45 feet long barrel) guns, which outranged the <a href="/wiki/Armstrong_Whitworth_12-inch_40-calibre_naval_gun" title="Armstrong Whitworth 12-inch 40-calibre naval gun">12" 40-calibre guns</a> used by the Japanese battleships in the war.<sup id="cite_ref-ck2_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ck2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The increase in armament was also justified by a change in the IJN's doctrine for these ships in which they were now intended to participate in the <a href="/wiki/Line_of_battle" title="Line of battle">line of battle</a> and overpower the enemy's screening armored cruisers.<sup id="cite_ref-i5_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-i5-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>Tsukuba</i>s were "briefly the world's most powerful cruisers in service until the completion of the first true battlecruisers, the British <a href="/wiki/Invincible-class_battlecruiser" title="Invincible-class battlecruiser"><i>Invincible</i> class</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were also the first <a href="/wiki/Capital_ship" title="Capital ship">capital ships</a> to be designed and constructed entirely by Japan in a Japanese shipyard.<sup id="cite_ref-i5_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-i5-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This type of warships with speed of a cruiser and the firepower and protection armor of a battleship was advocated by <a href="/wiki/John_Fisher,_1st_Baron_Fisher" title="John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher">First Sea Lord Jacky Fisher</a> who coined the term 'battlecruiser' for the type in the UK later in 1908.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Design_and_description">Design and description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsukuba-class_cruiser&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Design and description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>Tsukuba</i>-class design was very similar to that of the British <a href="/wiki/Cressy-class_cruiser" title="Cressy-class cruiser"><i>Cressy</i>-class</a> armored cruiser, albeit some 1,750 long tons (1,778 t) larger. The Japanese ships were shorter and <a href="/wiki/Beam_(nautical)" title="Beam (nautical)">beamier</a>, but shape of the hull and the positioning of the armament was almost identical, although the traditional <a href="/wiki/Naval_ram" title="Naval ram">ram</a> <a href="/wiki/Bow_(nautical)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bow (nautical)">bow</a> was replaced by a clipper-style bow. The adoption of more powerful Miyabara <a href="/wiki/Water-tube_boiler" title="Water-tube boiler">water-tube boilers</a> by the IJN allowed the number of boilers to be reduced from 30 in the British ships to 20 in the <i>Tsukuba</i>-class ships with no loss of power or speed. This reduced the length required for their propulsion machinery and allowed the larger guns and their ammunition to be accommodated.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Tsukuba</i>s had an <a href="/wiki/Length_overall" title="Length overall">overall length</a> of 450 feet (137.2 m) and a <a href="/wiki/Length_between_perpendiculars" title="Length between perpendiculars">length between perpendiculars</a> of 440 feet (134.1 m), a beam of 75 feet (22.9 m), and a normal <a href="/wiki/Draft_(hull)" title="Draft (hull)">draft</a> of about 26 feet (7.9 m). They <a href="/wiki/Displacement_(ship)" title="Displacement (ship)">displaced</a> 13,750 long tons (13,971 t) at normal load<sup id="cite_ref-i4_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-i4-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 15,400 long tons (15,647 t) at <a href="/wiki/Full-load_displacement" class="mw-redirect" title="Full-load displacement">full load</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-j8_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-j8-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had a <a href="/wiki/Metacentric_height" title="Metacentric height">metacentric height</a> of 4 feet 5 inches (1.34 m) which made them bad gun platforms as they had a very quick <a href="/wiki/Ship_motions" title="Ship motions">roll</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The crew numbered about 820 officers and enlisted men.<sup id="cite_ref-j8_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-j8-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Tsukuba</i>-class ships had two 4-cylinder <a href="/wiki/Marine_steam_engine#Triple_or_multiple_expansion" title="Marine steam engine">vertical triple-expansion steam engines</a>, each driving a single <a href="/wiki/Propeller_shaft" class="mw-redirect" title="Propeller shaft">propeller shaft</a>. Steam for the engines was provided by 20 Miyabara boilers with a working pressure of 16.8 <a href="/wiki/Kilogram-force" title="Kilogram-force">kg/cm<sup>2</sup></a> (1,648 <a href="/wiki/Pascal_(unit)" title="Pascal (unit)">kPa</a>; 239 <a href="/wiki/Pound_per_square_inch" title="Pound per square inch">psi</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-i3_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-i3-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The engines were rated at a total of 20,500 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower#Indicated_horsepower" title="Horsepower">indicated horsepower</a> (15,300 <a href="/wiki/Kilowatt" class="mw-redirect" title="Kilowatt">kW</a>) to give a designed speed of 20.5 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a> (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph). During their <a href="/wiki/Sea_trial" title="Sea trial">sea trials</a> the ships reached 20.4 to 21.6 knots (37.8 to 40.0 km/h; 23.5 to 24.9 mph) from 22,670–23,260 ihp (16,910–17,340 kW).<sup id="cite_ref-j8_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-j8-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>Tsukuba</i>s were first ships of the IJN to use <a href="/wiki/Fuel_oil" title="Fuel oil">fuel oil</a> sprayed onto the coal for extra power<sup id="cite_ref-i3_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-i3-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and carried up to 1,911 long tons (1,942 t) of coal and 160 long tons (163 t) of oil.<sup id="cite_ref-j8_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-j8-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Armament">Armament</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsukuba-class_cruiser&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Armament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>Tsukuba</i>-class armored cruisers were armed with four 45-<a href="/wiki/Caliber_(artillery)" title="Caliber (artillery)">caliber</a> <a href="/wiki/EOC_12_inch/45_naval_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="EOC 12 inch/45 naval gun">12-inch 41st Year Type guns</a>. The guns were mounted in twin-gun hydraulically powered centerline turrets, one each fore and aft of the <a href="/wiki/Superstructure" title="Superstructure">superstructure</a>. The guns had an elevation range of −3° to +23° and normally loaded their rounds at an angle of +5°, although loading at any angle up to +13° was theoretically possible.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They fired 850-pound (386 kg) projectiles at a <a href="/wiki/Muzzle_velocity" title="Muzzle velocity">muzzle velocity</a> of 2,800 ft/s (850 m/s);<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> this provided a maximum range of 24,000 yd (22,000 m) with <a href="/wiki/Armor-piercing_shot_and_shell" class="mw-redirect" title="Armor-piercing shot and shell">armor-piercing</a> (AP) shells.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their <a href="/wiki/Secondary_armament" title="Secondary armament">secondary armament</a> consisted of a dozen <a href="/wiki/Elswick_Ordnance_Company" title="Elswick Ordnance Company">Elswick Ordnance Company</a> "Pattern GG" 45-caliber<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/15_cm/45_41st_Year_Type" title="15 cm/45 41st Year Type">6-inch (152 mm)</a> guns mounted in armored <a href="/wiki/Casemate" title="Casemate">casemates</a> on the middle and main decks. The eight guns on the middle deck were very close to the <a href="/wiki/Waterline" title="Waterline">waterline</a> and could not be used in bad weather.<sup id="cite_ref-i8_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-i8-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their 100-pound (45.4 kg) AP shells were fired at a muzzle velocity of 2,706 feet per second (825 m/s).<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Close-range defense against <a href="/wiki/Torpedo_boat" title="Torpedo boat">torpedo boats</a> consisted of twelve <a href="/wiki/Quick-firing_gun" title="Quick-firing gun">quick-firing (QF)</a> <a href="/wiki/QF_4.7_inch_Gun_Mk_I%E2%80%93IV" class="mw-redirect" title="QF 4.7 inch Gun Mk I–IV">4.7-inch 41st Year Type</a> guns. Four of these were mounted in casemates in the bow and stern, while the remaining guns were positioned on the upper deck and protected by <a href="/wiki/Gun_shield" title="Gun shield">gun shields</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-i1_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-i1-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These guns fired 45-pound (20.4 kg) AP shells at a muzzle velocity of 2,150 feet per second (660 m/s).<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ships were also equipped with four 40-caliber <a href="/wiki/QF_12_pounder_12_cwt_naval_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun">QF 12-pounder 12-cwt guns</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>Note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 3-inch (76 mm) gun fired 12.5-pound (5.7 kg) projectiles at a muzzle velocity of 2,359 feet per second (719 m/s).<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>Tsukuba</i>-class ships were equipped with three submerged <a href="/wiki/Torpedo_tube" title="Torpedo tube">torpedo tubes</a>, one on each <a href="/wiki/Broadside_(naval)" title="Broadside (naval)">broadside</a>, and one in the <a href="/wiki/Stern_(ship)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stern (ship)">stern</a>. All of the tubes in <i>Tsukuba</i>, and the stern tube in <i>Ikoma</i>, were 18 inches (457 mm) in diameter. The broadside tubes in <i>Ikoma</i>, however, were 21 inches (533 mm) in size.<sup id="cite_ref-i1_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-i1-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Armor">Armor</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsukuba-class_cruiser&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Armor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In order to keep the displacement down and the speed the same as in the earlier armored cruisers, armor in the <i>Tsukuba</i> class was about the same in thickness, although in an improved layout. The waterline armor <a href="/wiki/Belt_armor" title="Belt armor">belt</a> of <a href="/wiki/Krupp_cemented_armor" class="mw-redirect" title="Krupp cemented armor">Krupp cemented armor</a> was 7 inches (178 mm) thick between the 12-inch gun turrets although it was only 4 inches (102 mm) thick fore and aft of the turrets. Above it was a strake of 5-inch (127 mm) armor that extended between the <a href="/wiki/Barbette" title="Barbette">barbettes</a> and protected the 6-inch casemates. The aft ends of the main armor belt were connected to the main gun <a href="/wiki/Barbette" title="Barbette">barbettes</a> by 1-inch (25 mm) transverse <a href="/wiki/Bulkhead_(partition)" title="Bulkhead (partition)">bulkheads</a>. The lack of a forward bulkhead and the thinness of the aft bulkhead were serious weaknesses in the ships' protection.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The front of the main gun turrets were protected by armor plates 9.6 inches (244 mm) thick, the sides by 9-inch (229 mm) plates and they had a 1.5-inch (38 mm) roof. The main barbettes were protected by seven inches of armour. The thickness of the armored <a href="/wiki/Deck_(ship)" title="Deck (ship)">decks</a> ranged in thickness from 1.5 inches on the flat and at the ends of the ship to 2 inches (51 mm) on the slope of the deck. The sides of the forward <a href="/wiki/Conning_tower" title="Conning tower">conning tower</a> were 8 inches (203 mm) thick and it had a 3-inch roof.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ships_in_class">Ships in class</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsukuba-class_cruiser&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Ships in class"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>Construction data </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Ship </th> <th scope="col">Namesake </th> <th scope="col">Builder<sup id="cite_ref-ck2_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ck2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/Laid_down" class="mw-redirect" title="Laid down">Laid down</a><sup id="cite_ref-ck2_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ck2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/Ship_naming_and_launching" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship naming and launching">Launched</a><sup id="cite_ref-ck2_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ck2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th scope="col">Completed<sup id="cite_ref-ck2_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ck2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Tsukuba" title="Japanese cruiser Tsukuba"><i>Tsukuba</i></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mount_Tsukuba" title="Mount Tsukuba">Mount Tsukuba</a><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Kure_Naval_Arsenal" title="Kure Naval Arsenal">Kure Naval Arsenal</a> </td> <td>14 January 1905 </td> <td>26 December 1905 </td> <td>14 January 1907 </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Ikoma" title="Japanese cruiser Ikoma"><i>Ikoma</i></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mount_Ikoma" title="Mount Ikoma">Mount Ikoma</a><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>15 March 1905 </td> <td>9 April 1906 </td> <td>24 March 1908 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Construction_and_service">Construction and service</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsukuba-class_cruiser&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Construction and service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Yokosuka_Naval_Arsenal" title="Yokosuka Naval Arsenal">Yokosuka Naval Arsenal</a> had the most experience in building warships, but the IJN feared a bombardment by the Russian <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Fleet_(Russia)" title="Pacific Fleet (Russia)">2nd and 3rd Pacific Squadrons</a> then en route from the <a href="/wiki/Baltic_Sea" title="Baltic Sea">Baltic Sea</a> and decided to build the <i>Tsukuba</i>s at the less-exposed Kure Naval Arsenal, even though Kure's experience was with ship repair and conversions. This meant that skilled workers had to be brought from Yokosuka to train the workforce at Kure in construction techniques. <i>Tsukuba</i> was laid down after the newly constructed <a href="/wiki/Slipway" title="Slipway">Slipway</a> No. 3 was completed in November 1904 and <i>Ikoma</i> followed once the extension of Slipway No. 2 was finished. These ships were over three times larger than the biggest ship previously built in Japan, the 4,217-long-ton (4,285 t) <a href="/wiki/Protected_cruiser" title="Protected cruiser">protected cruiser</a> <a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Hashidate" title="Japanese cruiser Hashidate"><i>Hashidate</i></a>. Priority of effort was given to the building of <i>Tsukuba</i> and she was completed in a very creditable two years. <i>Ikoma</i> took an additional year to finish as the end of the war shortly after she was laid down reduced the pressure to complete her as fast as possible. In addition, her slipway initially lacked any <a href="/wiki/Crane_(machine)" title="Crane (machine)">cranes</a> or <a href="/wiki/Derrick" title="Derrick">derricks</a> to lift heavy material until electrically powered steel shearleg derricks were improvised. Construction of both ships was somewhat delayed by difficulties in procuring enough steel plates and <a href="/wiki/Rivet" title="Rivet">rivets</a>; quantities of both had to be imported from the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tsukuba_(1907)_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Tsukuba_%281907%29_1.jpg/220px-Tsukuba_%281907%29_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Tsukuba_%281907%29_1.jpg/330px-Tsukuba_%281907%29_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Tsukuba_%281907%29_1.jpg/440px-Tsukuba_%281907%29_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2500" data-file-height="1655" /></a><figcaption><i>Tsukuba</i> moving at slow speed, before 1913</figcaption></figure> <p>Possibly due to the speed at which she was constructed, <i>Tsukuba</i> reportedly suffered from numerous defects.<sup id="cite_ref-j8_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-j8-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shortly after she was completed, the ship sailed for America where she participated in the <a href="/wiki/Jamestown_Exposition" title="Jamestown Exposition">Jamestown Exposition</a> Naval Review in May–June 1907.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ship then sailed to Europe where she made numerous port visits over the next several months.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While in Britain, <i>Tsukuba</i> was fitted with a <a href="/wiki/Vickers" title="Vickers">Vickers</a> <a href="/wiki/Ship_gun_fire-control_system" title="Ship gun fire-control system">fire-control system</a> that calculated the firing data for each gun and with which the <a href="/wiki/Gunnery_officer" title="Gunnery officer">gunnery officer</a> fired the guns in unison.<sup id="cite_ref-i1_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-i1-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Ikoma</i> visited England in July 1910 as part of the <a href="/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93British_Exhibition" title="Japan–British Exhibition">Japan–British Exhibition</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Tsukuba</i>-class ships were reclassified as <a href="/wiki/Battlecruiser" title="Battlecruiser">battlecruisers</a> in 1912.<sup id="cite_ref-ck2_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ck2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Around 1913–14, the main deck 6-inch guns were removed and six were reinstalled on the upper deck where they replaced four 4.7-inch guns. This gave them a total of ten 6-inch and eight 4.7-inch guns.<sup id="cite_ref-i8_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-i8-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shortly after the beginning of World War I in August 1914, <i>Tsukuba</i> was assigned to the 1st South Seas Squadron that searched for the East Asia Squadron in the German-owned islands in the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">Central Pacific</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 7 October, a landing party from the ship occupied <a href="/wiki/Pohnpei" title="Pohnpei">Ponape</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Caroline_Islands" title="Caroline Islands">Caroline Islands</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Ikoma</i> joined the squadron in November, shortly before it moved to <a href="/wiki/Fiji" title="Fiji">Fiji</a> in December.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Tsukuba</i> was assigned as a gunnery training ship in 1916. By 1917, both ships were assigned to the 2nd Division<sup id="cite_ref-p1_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p1-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>Tsukuba</i> was sunk by a magazine explosion on 14 January with the loss of 305 crewmen; her wreck was later <a href="/wiki/Marine_salvage" title="Marine salvage">salvaged</a> and scrapped.<sup id="cite_ref-ck2_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ck2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Ikoma</i> became a gunnery training ship in her turn in 1918<sup id="cite_ref-p1_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p1-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and her armament was augmented by a pair of <a href="/wiki/8_cm/40_3rd_Year_Type_naval_gun" title="8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval gun">8 cm/40 3rd Year Type</a> <a href="/wiki/Anti-aircraft_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-aircraft gun">anti-aircraft (AA) guns</a> the following year. She was re-rated back to first-class cruiser in 1921 and disarmed in 1922 to fulfill the requirements of the Washington Naval Treaty. The ship was broken up in November 1924.<sup id="cite_ref-j8_9-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-j8-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsukuba-class_cruiser&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Cwt" is the abbreviation for <a href="/wiki/Hundredweight" title="Hundredweight">hundredweight</a>, 12 cwt referring to the weight of the gun.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Footnotes">Footnotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tsukuba-class_cruiser&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Footnotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Itani, Lengerer & Rehm-Takahara, pp. 53–54</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ck2-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ck2_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ck2_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ck2_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ck2_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ck2_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ck2_2-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ck2_2-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Gardiner & Gray, p. 233</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tsushima#Gun_range_and_rate_of_fire" title="Battle of Tsushima">Battle of Tsushima#Gun range and rate of fire</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-i5-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-i5_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-i5_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Itani, Lengerer & Rehm-Takahara, p. 55</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Evans & Peattie, p. 159</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSumida1993">Sumida 1993</a>, p. 54</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Itani, Lengerer & Rehm-Takahara, p. 64</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-i4-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-i4_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Itani, Lengerer & Rehm-Takahara, p. 54</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-j8-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-j8_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-j8_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-j8_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-j8_9-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-j8_9-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-j8_9-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 77</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Itani, Lengerer & Rehm-Takahara, pp. 57–58</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-i3-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-i3_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-i3_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Itani, Lengerer & Rehm-Takahara, p. 73</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Itani, Lengerer & Rehm-Takahara, pp. 64, 67, 79</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Friedman, p. 272</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Itani, Lengerer & Rehm-Takahara, p. 67</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Friedman, p. 276</span> </li> <li 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Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87021-893-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-87021-893-X"><bdi>0-87021-893-X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Warships+of+the+Imperial+Japanese+Navy%2C+1869%E2%80%931945&rft.place=Annapolis%2C+Maryland&rft.pub=United+States+Naval+Institute&rft.date=1977&rft.isbn=0-87021-893-X&rft.aulast=Jentschura&rft.aufirst=Hansgeorg&rft.au=Jung%2C+Dieter&rft.au=Mickel%2C+Peter&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATsukuba-class+cruiser" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLengererAhlberg2019" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Lengerer, Hans & Ahlberg, Lars (2019). <i>Capital Ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1868–1945: Ironclads, Battleships and Battle Cruisers: An Outline History of Their Design, Construction and Operations</i>. 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battleship"><i>Shikishima</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Asahi" title="Japanese battleship Asahi"><i>Asahi</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Mikasa" title="Japanese battleship Mikasa"><i>Mikasa</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katori-class_battleship" title="Katori-class battleship"><i>Katori</i></a> <sup>C</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satsuma-class_battleship" title="Satsuma-class battleship"><i>Satsuma</i></a> <sup>C</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Ironclad_warship" title="Ironclad warship">Ironclad battleships</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dingyuan-class_ironclad" title="Dingyuan-class ironclad"><i>Dingyuan</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Armored_cruiser" title="Armored cruiser">Armored cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asama-class_cruiser" title="Asama-class cruiser"><i>Asama</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Izumo-class_cruiser" title="Izumo-class cruiser"><i>Izumo</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Yakumo" title="Japanese cruiser Yakumo"><i>Yakumo</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Azuma" title="Japanese cruiser Azuma"><i>Azuma</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kasuga-class_cruiser" title="Kasuga-class cruiser"><i>Kasuga</i></a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink"><i>Tsukuba</i></a> <sup>C</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Protected_cruiser" title="Protected cruiser">Protected cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chilean_cruiser_Esmeralda_(1883)" title="Chilean cruiser Esmeralda (1883)"><i>Izumi</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naniwa-class_cruiser" title="Naniwa-class cruiser"><i>Naniwa</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Chiyoda" title="Japanese cruiser Chiyoda"><i>Chiyoda</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matsushima-class_cruiser" title="Matsushima-class cruiser"><i>Matsushima</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Akitsushima" title="Japanese cruiser Akitsushima"><i>Akitsushima</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Yoshino" title="Japanese cruiser Yoshino"><i>Yoshino</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suma-class_cruiser" title="Suma-class cruiser"><i>Suma</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Takasago" title="Japanese cruiser Takasago"><i>Takasago</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kasagi-class_cruiser" title="Kasagi-class cruiser"><i>Kasagi</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niitaka-class_cruiser" title="Niitaka-class cruiser"><i>Niitaka</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Otowa" title="Japanese cruiser Otowa"><i>Otowa</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chinese_cruiser_Jiyuan" title="Chinese cruiser Jiyuan">Saien</a></i> <sup>S</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Unprotected_cruiser" title="Unprotected cruiser">Unprotected cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Tsukushi" title="Japanese cruiser Tsukushi"><i>Tsukushi</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Takao_(1888)" title="Japanese cruiser Takao (1888)"><i>Takao</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Yaeyama" title="Japanese cruiser Yaeyama"><i>Yaeyama</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Tatsuta_(1894)" title="Japanese cruiser Tatsuta (1894)"><i>Tatsuta</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Miyako" title="Japanese cruiser Miyako"><i>Miyako</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Chihaya" title="Japanese cruiser Chihaya"><i>Chihaya</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Destroyer" title="Destroyer">Destroyers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ikazuchi-class_destroyer" title="Ikazuchi-class destroyer"><i>Ikazuchi</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murakumo-class_destroyer" title="Murakumo-class destroyer"><i>Murakumo</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akatsuki-class_destroyer_(1901)" title="Akatsuki-class destroyer (1901)"><i>Akatsuki</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shirakumo-class_destroyer" title="Shirakumo-class destroyer"><i>Shirakumo</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harusame-class_destroyer" title="Harusame-class destroyer"><i>Harusame</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamikaze-class_destroyer_(1905)" title="Kamikaze-class destroyer (1905)"><i>Kamikaze</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Corvette" title="Corvette">Corvettes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_gunboat_Banj%C5%8D" title="Japanese gunboat Banjō"><i>Banjō</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maya-class_gunboat" title="Maya-class gunboat"><i>Maya</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_gunboat_%C5%8Cshima" title="Japanese gunboat Ōshima"><i>Ōshima</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Epsilon-class_gunboat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Epsilon-class gunboat (page does not exist)"><i>Epsilon</i></a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iota-class_gunboat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Iota-class gunboat (page does not exist)"><i>Iota</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_gunboat_Uji_(1903)" title="Japanese gunboat Uji (1903)"><i>Uji</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_ironclad_Pingyuan" title="Chinese ironclad Pingyuan"><i>Heien</i></a> <sup>S</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div> <dl><dt>S</dt> <dd>Single ship of class</dd> <dt>C</dt> <dd>Completed after the war</dd></dl> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Japanese_naval_ship_classes_of_World_War_I" style=";wide;padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:WWI_Japanese_ships" title="Template:WWI Japanese ships"><abbr title="View this template" style="color:inherit">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:WWI_Japanese_ships" title="Template talk:WWI Japanese ships"><abbr title="Discuss this template" style="color:inherit">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:WWI_Japanese_ships" title="Special:EditPage/Template:WWI Japanese ships"><abbr title="Edit this template" style="color:inherit">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Japanese_naval_ship_classes_of_World_War_I" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Japanese naval ship classes of World War I</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Seaplane_carrier" class="mw-redirect" title="Seaplane carrier">Seaplane carriers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_seaplane_carrier_Wakamiya" title="Japanese seaplane carrier Wakamiya"><i>Wakamiya</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Dreadnought" title="Dreadnought">Dreadnought</a> <a href="/wiki/Battleship" title="Battleship">battleships</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kawachi-class_battleship" title="Kawachi-class battleship"><i>Kawachi</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fus%C5%8D-class_battleship" title="Fusō-class battleship"><i>Fusō</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ise-class_battleship" title="Ise-class battleship"><i>Ise</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nagato-class_battleship" title="Nagato-class battleship"><i>Nagato</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Pre-dreadnought_battleship" title="Pre-dreadnought battleship">Pre-dreadnought battleships</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fuji-class_battleship" title="Fuji-class battleship"><i>Fuji</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petropavlovsk-class_battleship" title="Petropavlovsk-class battleship"><i>Petropavlovsk</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shikishima-class_battleship" title="Shikishima-class battleship"><i>Shikishima</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Asahi" title="Japanese battleship Asahi"><i>Asahi</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peresvet-class_battleship" title="Peresvet-class battleship"><i>Peresvet</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_battleship_Retvizan" title="Russian battleship Retvizan"><i>Hizen</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Mikasa" title="Japanese battleship Mikasa"><i>Mikasa</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borodino-class_battleship" title="Borodino-class battleship"><i>Borodino</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katori-class_battleship" title="Katori-class battleship"><i>Katori</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satsuma-class_battleship" title="Satsuma-class battleship"><i>Satsuma</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Battlecruiser" title="Battlecruiser">Battlecruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kong%C5%8D-class_battlecruiser" title="Kongō-class battlecruiser"><i>Kongō</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Armored_cruiser" title="Armored cruiser">Armored cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asama-class_cruiser" title="Asama-class cruiser"><i>Asama</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Izumo-class_cruiser" title="Izumo-class cruiser"><i>Izumo</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Yakumo" title="Japanese cruiser Yakumo"><i>Yakumo</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Azuma" title="Japanese cruiser Azuma"><i>Azuma</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kasuga-class_cruiser" title="Kasuga-class cruiser"><i>Kasuga</i></a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink"><i>Tsukuba</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibuki-class_armored_cruiser" title="Ibuki-class armored cruiser"><i>Ibuki</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Light_cruiser" title="Light cruiser">Light cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tenry%C5%AB-class_cruiser" title="Tenryū-class cruiser"><i>Tenryū</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuma-class_cruiser" title="Kuma-class cruiser"><i>Kuma</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Protected_cruiser" title="Protected cruiser">Protected cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Naniwa-class_cruiser" title="Naniwa-class cruiser"><i>Naniwa</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Chiyoda" title="Japanese cruiser Chiyoda"><i>Chiyoda</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matsushima-class_cruiser" title="Matsushima-class cruiser"><i>Matsushima</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Akitsushima" title="Japanese cruiser Akitsushima"><i>Akitsushima</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suma-class_cruiser" title="Suma-class cruiser"><i>Suma</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kasagi-class_cruiser" title="Kasagi-class cruiser"><i>Kasagi</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niitaka-class_cruiser" title="Niitaka-class cruiser"><i>Niitaka</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Otowa" title="Japanese cruiser Otowa"><i>Otowa</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Tone_(1907)" title="Japanese cruiser Tone (1907)"><i>Tone</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yodo-class_cruiser" title="Yodo-class cruiser"><i>Yodo</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chikuma-class_cruiser" title="Chikuma-class cruiser"><i>Chikuma</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Unprotected_cruiser" title="Unprotected cruiser">Unprotected cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Tatsuta_(1894)" title="Japanese cruiser Tatsuta (1894)"><i>Tatsuta</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Chihaya" title="Japanese cruiser Chihaya"><i>Chihaya</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Destroyer" title="Destroyer">Destroyers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ikazuchi-class_destroyer" title="Ikazuchi-class destroyer"><i>Ikazuchi</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murakumo-class_destroyer" title="Murakumo-class destroyer"><i>Murakumo</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shirakumo-class_destroyer" title="Shirakumo-class destroyer"><i>Shirakumo</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harusame-class_destroyer" title="Harusame-class destroyer"><i>Harusame</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamikaze-class_destroyer_(1905)" title="Kamikaze-class destroyer (1905)"><i>Kamikaze</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umikaze-class_destroyer" title="Umikaze-class destroyer"><i>Umikaze</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sakura-class_destroyer" title="Sakura-class destroyer"><i>Sakura</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urakaze-class_destroyer" title="Urakaze-class destroyer"><i>Urakaze</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaba-class_destroyer" title="Kaba-class destroyer"><i>Kaba</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isokaze-class_destroyer" title="Isokaze-class destroyer"><i>Isokaze</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Momo-class_destroyer" title="Momo-class destroyer"><i>Momo</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Acorn-class_destroyer" title="Acorn-class destroyer">H</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>L</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enoki-class_destroyer" title="Enoki-class destroyer"><i>Enoki</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kawakaze-class_destroyer" title="Kawakaze-class destroyer"><i>Kawakaze</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Momi-class_destroyer" title="Momi-class destroyer"><i>Momi</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minekaze-class_destroyer" title="Minekaze-class destroyer"><i>Minekaze</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Torpedo_boat" title="Torpedo boat">Torpedo boats</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hayabusa-class_torpedo_boat" title="Hayabusa-class torpedo boat"><i>Hayabusa</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Submarine" 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